Jodi Picoult Parenting Quotations

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.